March 7, 2006
Recommendation Systems and Social Networking
Digital Music News reports on Pandora’s deal with Friendster. I talked about this sort of combination a little on Berkman’s site last week and want to say a bit more here.
The connection between these two tools goes in both direction. Chris Anderson is right that my friends won’t necessarily produce good recommendations. But sometimes they might, and, at the very least, you might like to know what your friends are listening to, even if you don’t actually end up wanting to listen to it yourself. You could tie that into finding out what concerts your friends are going to.
And when you find someone who produces good recommendations, you might want to make them a “friend.” Last.fm and MusicStrands do this. They recommend similar people to you as “neighbours” and let you add “friends” or “influencers.” This is similar to subscribing to an MP3 bloggers’ RSS feed, or, more on point, a playlist publishers’ feed. At the same time, it allows the possibility for a little more sense of connection with the publisher.
Filed by Derek Slater at 12:35 am under General news
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